Enhancement of pure hydrogen production through the use of a membrane reactor

International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 4749-4760

  Kyriakides, Alexios Spyridon ^a,b   Rodríguez García, Laura ^a   Voutetakis, Spyridon ^a   Ipsakis, Dimitris ^a   Seferlis, Panos ^a,b   Papadopoulou, Simira ^a,c  

^a INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c ALEXANDER TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Hydrogen; Low temperature methane reforming; Membrane reactor; Modeling; Simulation

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; BIOREACTORS; CATALYST SUPPORTS; CATALYTIC REFORMING; MEMBRANES; METHANE; PALLADIUM ALLOYS; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS (PEMFC); SILVER ALLOYS; STEAM REFORMING; TEMPERATURE;

ENERGY CARRIERS; LOW TEMPERATURE METHANE REFORMING; LOWS-TEMPERATURES; MEMBRANE REACTOR; METHANE CONVERSIONS; METHANE REFORMING; METHANE STEAM REFORMING; MODELING; OPERATING CONDITION; SIMULATION;

HYDROGEN PRODUCTION;

EID: 84895461900     PISSN: 03603199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2014.01.093     Document Type: Article

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